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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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In the next place, we may say Christ hath a twofold glory.
1. That which was essential and eternal, which he had from the beginning ⟨p. 25⟩with God, for being God he could not really be divested of that glory.
1. That which was essentiall and eternall, which he had from the beginning ⟨p. 25⟩with God, for being God he could not really be divested of that glory.
2. There is his Mediatory glory; That which he hath not as God but as Mediator; This God bestowed upon him after he had been in the state of humiliation, for after all that debasement and misery he willingly undertook, God did exalt him to glory, and gave him a name above all principalities and powers: yea, giving all power in heaven and earth to him; The government of the whole Church, and a command over all Ordinances and duties therein, to bless and give success to them, of which the Scripture speaketh often.
2. There is his Mediatory glory; That which he hath not as God but as Mediatour; This God bestowed upon him after he had been in the state of humiliation, for after all that debasement and misery he willingly undertook, God did exalt him to glory, and gave him a name above all principalities and powers: yea, giving all power in heaven and earth to him; The government of the whole Church, and a command over all Ordinances and duties therein, to blesse and give successe to them, of which the Scripture speaketh often.